Saurabh Sachdeva is an Indian actor, acting coach and film producer. He has trained many famous Indian actors including Rana Daggubati, Dulquer Salmaan, Trupti Dimri, Arjun Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez and Vaani Kapoor. He is popular for playing the role of ‘Sulaiman Isa’ in the 2018 Netflix series ‘Sacred Games’.
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Wiki/Biography
Saurabh Sachdeva was born on Sunday, 24 September 1978 (age 45 years; as in 2023) in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India. His zodiac sign is Libra. He studied at Model Senior Secondary School, Saket, Delhi. He began his acting training in 2001 at Barry John’s Imago Acting School (now Barry John Acting Studio).
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 10″
Hair Color: Salt and Pepper
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
There is not much information about his parents and siblings.
Wife
He is unmarried.
livelihood
Before venturing into acting, he ran a handicraft export business.
acting coach
Saurabh started his career as an acting coach in 2002 at Imago Acting School, Noida. He worked there for about a year and participated in many street plays. He joined the Barry John Acting School in Mumbai in 2005 as an acting coach and worked there for eleven years. In 2017, Saurabh Sachdeva founded ‘Antarang’, an education and training institute named ‘The Actor’s Truth’ and theater group ‘Antarang’ in Mumbai.
Film producer and writer
In 2016, he made his directorial debut with the Hindi short film ‘Gul’, which was screened at the International Film Festival of Kerala. He also debuted as a writer with this film.
Poster of the 2016 short film ‘Gul’
actor
film
In 2017, he played an Inspector R. from the Hindi thriller film ‘Maroon’. Made his acting debut as Negi.
Saurabh Sachdeva in a scene from the 2017 Hindi film ‘Maroon’
He came into limelight after playing the role of the antagonist, a loan shark named Prajapati Pandey, in the 2022 Hindi thriller film ‘Vadh’. In 2023, he appeared as a transgender Inder in the Hindi crime drama film ‘Haddi’ starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
web series
In 2018, he played the role of Suleman Isa in his first web series titled ‘Sacred Games’ which was released on Netflix.
Saurabh Sachdeva in a scene from the 2018 Netflix Hindi web series ‘Sacred Games’
In 2023, he appeared in the supporting role of Colonel Himmat Singh Mann in Disney+Hotstar’s crime thriller web series ‘Kaala’. The same year, he played the role of Sulaiman “Haji” Maqbool in Prime Video’s period crime thriller series ‘Bombay Meri Jaan’.
Facts/General Knowledge
- Being dyslexic, it was difficult for Saurabh to study, due to which he was bullied in school. He once revealed that when he was studying in sixth grade in school, he peed in his pants because he could not form a simple sentence to get permission from his teacher to go to the washroom.
- In his free time he likes to read books.
- In an interview, while talking about why he decided to become an actor and how his acting journey started, he said,
My love for acting started in 2001, when nothing was working in my life. The woman I loved was leaving me so I wanted to become famous immediately. So I thought let’s become an actor. I started with modeling but I didn’t like it because I was shy and didn’t enjoy walking on the ramp. I connected with Barry John and I realized that I wanted to express myself. I am dyslexic and cannot express myself through words. From there my journey started, I did plays and then never looked back. In 2017, I started teaching acting and got Sacred Games.
- In April 2019, he published a series of articles titled “Why have we stopped taking risks?” Gave a TEDx talk on the topic.
Saurabh Sachdeva during his TEDx speech in 2019
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